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Jul 27, 2001 · With Janet McTeer, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Gregory Russell Cook. After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia.
- (3.7K)
- Drama, Music
- Maggie Greenwald
- 2001-07-27
Songcatcher is a 2000 drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina.
Jun 29, 2001 · "Songcatcher" tells the story of a woman who goes into the mountains of Appalachia in 1907, and finds the people singing British ballads that are almost unchanged since they arrived there 200 years earlier.
A film about a woman whose drive to pursue the things she believes in leads her on an unexpected path to self-discovery. It is 1907, and musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) has just...
- (90)
- Maggie Greenwald
- PG-13
- Janet Mcteer
1 hr 45 mins. Drama, Music. PG13. Watchlist. Writer-director Maggie Greenwald hits all the right notes in a lyrical tale set in the early 1900s. Janet McTeer stars as a musicologist who...
- (27)
- 2 min
- PG13
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Winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize SONGCATCHER follows the unforgettable journey of a big-city musicologist who leaves it all behind to start...